Is a 'National Divorce' Inevitable?

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[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you have any data to support this? Here is one indicator of the recent decline of freemen.

In early America, the political lines were clear. The Hamiltonians represented the elite and the Jeffersonians represented freemen. The Jeffersonians did well enough so that the elite couldn't destroy the freemen.

[–]Cornfed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Data shouldn't be required. It is common knowledge that in the modern era organic-based hierarchies (familial, tribal, religious etc.) as well as natural distinctions between sexes and races have been suppressed with the aim of making the populous atomised individuals who don't care about each other and interact only through the mercantilist system, answering only to the authority of the mercantilist-controlled government. The Jefferson/Hamilton dispute was an argument about tactics among mercantilists. Jefferson wanted the plebs to think they had a stake in the country, thereby giving them more incentive to develop it before the inevitable consolidation.